DAY
TWO
Fog had set in overnight. The tide was out and the little boats sat in
the mud once again. The fog comes in
waves and cycles, giving you the impression that soon it will clear. The sun is barely visible through the clouds
and you can see the fog seem to want to disappear, only to roll back in with
another wave of mist. The fog seems to
descend from above and move with a motion instead of simply being there as we
have back home. The fog covers
everything and at times we could not see the small harbor in front of us
because of the denseness of the fog. We
could hear the sea birds but not see them.
A family of pheasants scurried by,
three to four babies and the mother close by them and the larger male with a
green head and a white ring around his neck.
He went off into the brush, leaving all of them to fend for
themselves. Of course, he may have been
trying to attract our attention so that we could not notice his little family
as they also took to the brush to hide and look for breakfast.
We had coffee on the porch to meet
the morning even though we could see little of the scenery around us. The day felt lazy, perhaps getting rested
from the long journey we made to get here.
We did little for half the day and then after lunch drove over to
Annapolis Royal to walk around and see if we could pick up the Wi-Fi from a
business, which we did. The cottage has
no Wi-Fi as well as no television and a radio that picks up several stations in
English as well as French. We can do
without television fairly easily but it would be good to hear the weather
forecast now and then. So, we found
Wi-Fi that a restaurant provides and it could be picked up even out in a park
near it.
We walked a boardwalk near the water
and looked around town a bit and then drove back to the Cove where it was
noticeably cooler than it had been in Annapolis Royal. It is interesting how just driving 6 miles
from the two places you can feel the change in the weather. It was in the low 60s when we left Parker’s Cove
and it was around 75 in Annapolis Royal, just 6 miles away. It has something to do with there being a
mountain to cross between the two places.
It may have to do with our being near the ocean here and in a pocket
between mountains and ocean. In any
case, it is very comfortable here with cool breezes off the ocean.
Scallops….how we love them. We had them again for supper today. Pan fried with some potatoes and a salad with
them, again. We may tire of them before
we leave but as of now, we crave them each time we can have them. The cost of scallops is so reasonable in
comparison to what we pay in Austin when we buy them. We paid $6.99 a pound yesterday for medium
size scallops and in Austin the large ones cost $25.99 a pound if you can find
them. Even the large ones here are half
the price of the large back home. Maybe
that has something to with why we eat so many when we are here….you have to
enjoy them while you can when the price is right.
We saw a lobster boat come into the
cove today to be unloaded by a truck sent from the seafood sales shop across
from the wharf. We watched it come into
the cove since the high tide was in place and thought they would unload a boat
load of lobster only to find that the lobster traps they unloaded were empty. The
boat crew as well as the land crew sent by the seafood company worked for hours
to unload the empty traps and other equipment.
All we can guess is that the boat crew did a job for the company here
and used their equipment but took the lobsters elsewhere and now they were
returning the equipment for storage. We
watched their progress in the afternoon until we tired of it and found other
things to do.
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